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Old 10-19-2012, 03:53 PM  
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Originally Posted by RuthB View Post
If you were to try to leave the country on an expired passport, you would be turned back at customs/border control, even if your ID had expired just one day before. As soon as an ID expires it is useless for proving identity since it is no longer classified as valid, even though you are still the exact same person.
Except this is not travel. This is proving your identity, which does not change when your ID expires. John Doe does not cease to be John Doe after his ID expires. And you are not proving identity, because you already proved it when you opened the account.

Various states within the USA will honor your drivers license and give you another one so long as you apply for the new one within one year of the current one expiring. You just walk in with your expired license, 11 months later, and you get a new one. No other ID needed to verify anything. Easy peasy.
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